Notes for: Beverly Jane Bodine

From Ronny Bodine:

From Plainfield (NJ) Courier-News of 1 Oct 1938.
Chester--Miss Beverly Jean Bodine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Bodine, will be married this afternoon to Leonard Taft, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rae Taft, Jersey City, in St. Luke's Church, Gladstone. Ceremony will be performed by Rev. John Mitchell Harper, rector.

Newspaper Obituary, Asbury Park Press of 25 Feb 2014.
Leonard Taft, formerly of Spring Lake, recently of Ocean, died Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, at home. Mr. Taft was born in Bovina, NY in 1918. He attended St. Bernards School in Gladstone, where he was inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame. An outstanding athlete, he held the NJ state swimming record in breast stroke for many years. Mr. Taft attended Newark College of Engineering and was an engineer by profession. He worked for Hughes Aircraft and Lockheed Martin, to name a few. He served in the U.S. Army's 7th Regiment in New York City. When WWII broke out, he served in the U.S. Navy on the Liberty ship the WM. H. Wilmer in a convoy to Russia. At the age of 65, Mr. Taft got his pilot's license and flew his Ultralight aircraft for several years. He was predeceased by his wife, the former Beverly Bodine, who died in 1981. Mr. Taft is survived by his son and his wife, Mary of Island Heights; and daughter, Nancy and her husband Oliver P. Keelan. He has six grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren. A private family burial is planned. Arrangements by the Bailey Funeral Home of Peapack.

From New Jersey Death Records:
Beverley J. Taft of Spring Lake, Monmouth County, died 16 July 1981 in Neptune Twp., Monmouth County.

Burials in Peapack Union Cemetery, Gladstone, Somerset County.
(For grave marker photo see Find A Grave Memorial No. 10880317)
BEVERLY J. TAFT 1920---1981 LEONARD E. TAFT 1918---[no date]